The popular view of poverty must change. Lakshma Yapa a graduate of The University of Oregon with a PhD in geography, and author of “What are Improved Seeds? An Epistemology of the Green Revolution.” states “A common assumption of development theory is that people and places are poor because they lack resources.” With such a large misconception it is hard for the popular view of poverty to change. People assume that countries lack the structure and resources to not be in poverty, but never take into account that “Modern technologies have contributed to scarcity by destroying existing sources of supply and creating demands for new ones.” People assume that poverty stricken nations lack resources and do not realize that other, more developed
